5. You think fortified cereals are “health foods”

If you really think you’ll get lean eating cereal, then I have some swampland I’d like to sell you:

Cereal is bad in pretty much every way, bar the taste of course. All the studies from the 1980s that espoused the health benefits of cereal were sponsored by one very large, very well-known cereal manufacturer. Instead, have eggs and steak for breakfast, and go and buy the excellent Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.